An English crime writer, she is best known for her popular mystery series featuring the poetic detective, Adam Dalgliesh. Her non-serial works include Innocent Blood (1980), The Children of Men (1992), and Death Comes to Pemberley (2011). She worked in a tax office after dropping out of high school at age sixteen. She published her first Adam Dalgliesh novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962.
